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(MadeL) C. E. WHITTLESEY( Device for Repai-ring Heel-Lining of Boots and Shoes;

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"viz/1737 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. WHITTLESEXLOF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTIGUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO J OSEPH L. JOYGE, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR REPAlRING HEEL-LININGS OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,'709, dated June 8, 1880.

Application filed March 27, 1880.

To all whom *it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES E.WH1TTLE- SEY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and Stateof Connecticut,have invented a new Device for Repairing HeeLLinings of Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specifi cation, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective View of the stay as prepared for insertion; Fig. 2, longitudinal section of the heel portion of a shoe with the stay applied; F'g. 3, the stay as cut flat; Fig. 4, the same as shaped for insertion.

This invention relates to an improvement specially designed for the repair of boots and shoes.

In that class of boots and shoes which are lined at the heel the linin g soon wears through and frequently becomes a source of great annoyance to the wearer, and if repair is attempted it generally adds to the discomfort of the wearer.

The object of this invention is the const-ruction of a fiexible stay which may be readily and easily applied to the shoe and avoid the before-mentioned inconvenience; and it consists in the Construction as hereinafter de-' scribed, and particularly recited in the claim.

From leather fabric or other suitable flexihle material a gore-shaped piece, A, (see Fig. 3,) is cut, and at-its lower or broader end a notch, B, is cut, leaving the two edges a b at nearly a right angle to each other. These two edges a b are then brought together, as seen in Fig. 4:, which gives a transverse curvature to the upper portion and brings the two edges a b at nearly right angles to the upper portion, and corresponding nearly to the shape of the heel of the foot. Then over the jointedges a b a short thinheel-piece, G, is placed, and secured by stitching or otherwise. This' completes the stay. It is then placed in the shoe to be repaired at the heel, the heel-piece inanufacture; nor do I claim a counter sup- (Model) O beneath the insole D, the part A extending up over the worn or broken linig as seen in Fig. 2, where it may be Secured by simply overstitching the edge onto the lining; or it may be stitched to the shoe through and through. This covers the worn portion of the lining, forms a new surface for the heel, and practically makes the lining equally as good as in ts original condition.

The stay may be com posed of the single piece A, without the heel-piece G, by simply uniting the edges a b, that part forming the' hearing for the heel, but it must be ot' a flexihle material, because it is to be ntroduced after the shoe is worn; and if rgid and in the nature of a stiffenerit could not he so applied, and would not accomplish the object.

The insole D is not essential, as the heel of 65 the foot mayrest directly on the heel portion ot' the stay.

The stay thus produced becomes an article of manufaeture, and is of such character that an unskilled person may easily attach it to the shoe.

I do not broadly claim an additional or inner lining for a boot or shoe, as such, I am aware, has been introduced in the process of 7 port or stiffener which is practically rgid 5 but I am not aware that a heel-stay has been produced as an article for the repair of the lining of shoes, and which is the essential feature and object of this invention.

I therefore claim As a new article of manufacture, the inside heel-stay for the repair ot' lining of boots and shoes, constructed of leather or other suitable flexible material, as described, having the upper fiexible curved portion, A, and the heelpiece C, and aaapted to be Secured to the inside of a worn boot or shoe, substantially as specified.

GHARLES E. WHITTLESEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, Jos. G. EARLE. 

